Wow! What happened here?
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Road Warrior
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Wow! What happened here?
I picked up my son-in-law's 2001 Electra Glide, which was taken in as a surprise and had a lot of work done, such as the Screamin' Eagle Hydraulic Cam Chain Tensioner and oil pump upgrade, adjustable pushrods, complete service, primary tensioner pad, tires, carburetor intake seals, complete carburetor rebuild, etc.
He was pretty excited when I dropped off the bike to him and took it for a ride. Didn't get but five or so miles down the road and this happened:
What failed, and why? His wife just spent $2,500 on repairs and based on the work that was done and parts that were pulled apart and pulled off, is there a connection to this failure?
(Not sure why the pictures rotated in the post; not the way they show up on my computer. - Okay, I think I got them corrected.)
Thanks.
He was pretty excited when I dropped off the bike to him and took it for a ride. Didn't get but five or so miles down the road and this happened:
What failed, and why? His wife just spent $2,500 on repairs and based on the work that was done and parts that were pulled apart and pulled off, is there a connection to this failure?
(Not sure why the pictures rotated in the post; not the way they show up on my computer. - Okay, I think I got them corrected.)
Thanks.
Last edited by UltraClassicElectraGlide; Jun 14, 2014 at 10:38 PM.
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My guess? When they changed the rear tire, instead of removing the slip-ons, they just removed the two bracket bolts, and then pushed down on the muffler so the axle would clear and could be removed. I've seen other idiots do this. On an older pipe, maybe with a little corrosion, it was too much stress and vibration did it in. That is just my guess, but the only thing I could think of.
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Maybe the shop yanked the **** out of the pipe when removing it or putting it back on trying to attach it to the cylinders. I've seen guys yank the **** out of the pipes at the motorcycle rallies when changing out guys tires and rims. They were at big name wheel vendors too, right out in front of their semi trailers.
Last edited by hog95023; Jun 14, 2014 at 10:40 PM.
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Road Warrior
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Bike was garaged / California and probably only ridden a couple of times in the last year due to concerns of the cam and primary. Only 22k on the bike but he didn't want to tear anything up since model year 2001 had 'pad' issues.
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The shop would have pulled the complete exhaust off (most likely) to get to the cam chest to do all the work in there. Probably was pulled on pretty hard to get it apart, I know I did on mine when I pulled it off to throw it the hell away and put on something better. The rear Y-pipe, which that is, has had problems with cracks in that spot and at the upper Y. Although you guys spent a lot of money, I would take this opportunity to throw away that restrictive and leak prone original exhaust and put on a true dual or even a good 2 into 1. Otherwise it would just need a new Y-pipe to fix it up.
Whichever way you go, have the front motor mount checked as that is usually the cause of the Y-pipe breaking by allowing too much engine movement with a bad front motor mount.
Whichever way you go, have the front motor mount checked as that is usually the cause of the Y-pipe breaking by allowing too much engine movement with a bad front motor mount.
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The shop would have pulled the complete exhaust off (most likely) to get to the cam chest to do all the work in there. Probably was pulled on pretty hard to get it apart, I know I did on mine when I pulled it off to throw it the hell away and put on something better. The rear Y-pipe, which that is, has had problems with cracks in that spot and at the upper Y. Although you guys spent a lot of money, I would take this opportunity to throw away that restrictive and leak prone original exhaust and put on a true dual or even a good 2 into 1. Otherwise it would just need a new Y-pipe to fix it up.
Whichever way you go, have the front motor mount checked as that is usually the cause of the Y-pipe breaking by allowing too much engine movement with a bad front motor mount.
Whichever way you go, have the front motor mount checked as that is usually the cause of the Y-pipe breaking by allowing too much engine movement with a bad front motor mount.
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It's always something, huh? A replacement Y pipe shouldn't be hard to find. http://www.ebay.com/itm/HARLEY-DAVID...a13474&vxp=mtr
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